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general update, slightly scattered
+ There is the most amazing gelato place in town. Seriously, this gelato is so good that I dreamt of it.
+ I have been having lots of anxiety dreams. (Not about gelato.) Calm the fuck down, brain.
+ Remember that excellent animated show X-Men: Evolution? I missed it when it was actually airing, but the spark of fannishness set off by XMFC prompted me to watch it, and it is lovely. (Kurt is my forever boy, and Rogue is my forever girl, but I already knew these things.) Now that I have run out of that show, I seem to be watching Downton Abbey, which is also lovely but does have a dearth of mutants. I wonder what Maggie Smith's mutant power would be.
+ I never actually paid much attention to the HP films while they were happening, but apparently now they are over I mildly care? So tumblr has sent me down a rabbit hole of interviews with Dan Radcliffe. And this kid is delightful. The cognitive dissonance of being fannish about everything, though, means that I'm having the twin reactions of "I want to be your friend!" and "I want to track down all the RPF about you being BFFs with Gary Oldman."
+ Because my brain is back in the fandom groove re: HP but it's been years and there's so much fic and I don't know where to start, I have instead been reading the old fic I wrote which is still on my hard drive. And by old fic, I mean things I wrote when I was thirteen and hilarious. Seriously, when I was thirteen I had no idea how to write human emotions. Everyone reads like a cheerful sociopath! I was so popular with the other thirteen-year-olds, too. I just. I am so glad I kept all the old stuff; it greatly cheers me to see how much I have improved.
+ Aaaand, okay, I am writing a novel now. Like, a proper not-fic maybe-publishable sort of novel, that has actual characters and an outline and a plot, and a het romance (that will not become a triad I swear) (also there are lesbians) and I don't even know, you guys, I am mostly reminding myself to have fun instead of trying to write something publishable, because I suspect that's the quickest way to make it torture. Right now I really like it! So that's what I'm up to. Ahhhh.
+ I have been having lots of anxiety dreams. (Not about gelato.) Calm the fuck down, brain.
+ Remember that excellent animated show X-Men: Evolution? I missed it when it was actually airing, but the spark of fannishness set off by XMFC prompted me to watch it, and it is lovely. (Kurt is my forever boy, and Rogue is my forever girl, but I already knew these things.) Now that I have run out of that show, I seem to be watching Downton Abbey, which is also lovely but does have a dearth of mutants. I wonder what Maggie Smith's mutant power would be.
+ I never actually paid much attention to the HP films while they were happening, but apparently now they are over I mildly care? So tumblr has sent me down a rabbit hole of interviews with Dan Radcliffe. And this kid is delightful. The cognitive dissonance of being fannish about everything, though, means that I'm having the twin reactions of "I want to be your friend!" and "I want to track down all the RPF about you being BFFs with Gary Oldman."
+ Because my brain is back in the fandom groove re: HP but it's been years and there's so much fic and I don't know where to start, I have instead been reading the old fic I wrote which is still on my hard drive. And by old fic, I mean things I wrote when I was thirteen and hilarious. Seriously, when I was thirteen I had no idea how to write human emotions. Everyone reads like a cheerful sociopath! I was so popular with the other thirteen-year-olds, too. I just. I am so glad I kept all the old stuff; it greatly cheers me to see how much I have improved.
+ Aaaand, okay, I am writing a novel now. Like, a proper not-fic maybe-publishable sort of novel, that has actual characters and an outline and a plot, and a het romance (that will not become a triad I swear) (also there are lesbians) and I don't even know, you guys, I am mostly reminding myself to have fun instead of trying to write something publishable, because I suspect that's the quickest way to make it torture. Right now I really like it! So that's what I'm up to. Ahhhh.
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Does your old HP fic still exist on the internet? It would fill me with great hilarity to read it. *grin*
A novel! :o I am excited on your behalf!
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Ahaha. Some of it does? I deleted everything from my ariastar ff.n account, but I also had another one just for Remus/Sirius fic (most of it from when I was about fifteen?) for which I have completely lost all the login info, so I suspect that with some googling you could still find it. :D
I am excited too! I am still at the staring in terror at the main document/scuttling back to the outline and adding things to it stage, but wheeee.
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And if we're doing HP recs, can I just say:
The Death of Narcissa Black: A Potion, by massicot (alas massicot's journal is deleted and purged!), a gorgeously illustrated story about Narcissa and the Black family, and it's tragic and gut-punchy and amazing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAaiYKF0cs
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So much of my characterization for almost everyone comes from it, I admit.
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I think that is an excellent characterization choice! Though, how deeply awkward would it be if XMFC!Raven and XM:E!Mystique had to hang out? AWKWARD INDEED.
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And, DANIEL RADLIFFE. Like. I might have looked up some information on the three actors right when they were first announced? But definitely not since then! But now there will be no more opportunities to stare at their pretty faces on the movie screen, and suddenly I am very interested in what they have to say about Harry Potter!
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YES. But, I mean, there wasn't that much info on them when they were wee! But Dan Radcliffe has grown up charming and articulate and other things that are extremely fun to watch in interviews. :D
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Arbitrarily I think Ian McKellen should be Famine and Patrick Stewart should be Pestilence.
My only concern about the Horsemen of the Apocalypse Convention is that the world would have to be...really, really ending. A lot. In many ways at once. But I guess that is probably okay.
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So who is at our Horsemen convention now? We've got DEATH, Adam, Methos (I am suddenly deeply tickled, ADAM AND METHOS), Xavier, and Maggie Smith; War, Pepper, Kronos, Magneto, and Judy Dench; Famine, Wensleydale, Caspian, Storm, and Ian McKellen; and Pollution, Brian, Silas, Mystique, and Patrick Stewart.
...Hilariously I think the Pestilence people would all get along quite well.
WHAT ARE WE EVEN DOING, OLIVIA.
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WHAT EVEN ARE WE DOING? Possible this is the logical conclusion of being cheerful sociopathic teenagers. So which Horseman of the Apocalypse are you?
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Absolutely the logical conclusion! And -- man, I totally want to be War. I am going to pretend that my reasons are process of elimination ones, but actually they're that when I was like eight or nine I got seeing-red mad at a friend's older brother and legit beat him up and had the time of my life. So if I had apocalypse powers they would totally be DESTROY EVERYTHING WITH WAR ones.
Aaaand what about you?
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WAR IS THE GREATEST. Um. I do not mean that in any sense besides a Horsemen sense, but yeah, pretty much. I totally endorse you being War!
Ummmm. There is an easy answer to this question, probably. /o\
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